I think if you looked at the data of who the $10M+ people actually are, you would see they are actually the owners of these "real" businesses. Of course we are

I think if you looked at the data of who the $10M+ people actually are, you would see they are actually the owners of these "real" businesses. Of course we are talking selection bias with the businesses I'm talking about (just like startups here on Y combinator!) But I would argue the overall risk is lower, and the expected value is higher if you applied the same rigor to the business. There is no yCombinator or Harvard b school for trades. And that is what sets the ones that I see apart - they have leaders who naturally figured out how to lead, set up processes, do marketing, manage talent, etc. This is a huge gap for most high school path tradesmen as they've never "seen what good looks like," so most get stuck pretty early.